Electronic device and method for orientation-measuring device for downhole perforations

An apparatus for measuring orientation of a downhole perforating gun system, the apparatus comprising:

• a housing or platform for attachment to an interior of a perforating gun, a loading tube, or shape charges for a perforation wireline;
• at least one sensor configured to measure orientation information of the perforating gun, the loading tube, or the shape charges, wherein the at least one sensor includes one or more of a gyroscope, accelerometer, or magnetometer;
• at least one controller that controls the at least one sensor;
• and
• a communications interface for communicating the measured orientation information to one or more electronic devices communicatively coupled to the apparatus,
• wherein the at least one controller is configured to:
• cause transmission, using the communications interface, of the measured orientation information, which corresponds to an orientation of at least one of the perforating gun, the loading tube, or the shape charges, to the one or more electronic devices;
• initiate a firing sequence of the perforating gun or the shape charges based on a signal received from at least one of the one or more electronic devices;
• receive a transmission indicating whether or not the firing sequence of the perforating gun or the shape charges is confirmed based on an indication, using the at least one sensor, of whether or not the perforating gun or the shape charges has moved due to a force of a firing event by comparing orientation data received from the at least one sensor prior to the firing sequence with orientation data received from the at least one sensor after the firing sequence;
• initiate a re-firing sequence of the perforating gun or the shape charges in response to receiving the transmission indicating that the firing sequence of the perforating gun or the shape charges is not confirmed;
• and
• receive a transmission indicating the re-firing sequence is confirmed using the at least one sensor, wherein, in response to an event in which a sensor of the at least one sensor is destroyed during the re-firing sequence, the transmission indicating the re-firing sequence is confirmed is received from a sensor associated with another perforating gun, loading tube, or shape charges, of the downhole perforating gun system, upstream of the destroyed sensor.